Cement Masons Local 555 Archives

A new program in Oregon gives women prisoners a chance to prove themselves in a skilled trade and enter promising career upon release.

Interviews with 12 local construction tradeswomen reveals, no surprise: They want the same chance to succeed.

Three locals are launching a pre-apprenticeship program for inmates in the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.

Instructors at Cement Masons Local 555 training center are looking for a trailer. Their trailer.

Cement Masons Local 555 and Plasterers Local 82 on Dec. 10 gathered to recognize newly graduated apprentices and longtime members.

Local building trade unions have been picketing the colossal construction site to protest out-of-state contractors and subpar wages.

The reality show celebrates hard-working men and women who aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty.

Mount Hood Community College has agreements with over a dozen union apprenticeship programs to award equivalent college credits.

A Portland building trades union member is a contestant on Season Two of CBS’ hit prime time reality show Tough as Nails.

Liz Nichols, a seven-year member of the Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons union, is one of 12 contestants on the show.